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Hail the Conquering Hero

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Hail the Conquering Hero
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NR,1hr 41min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1944
Director:
Preston Sturges
Starring:
Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest  ...more
Synopsis: It took nerve for writer/director Preston Sturges to lampoon the whole concept of hero worship in the middle of World War II, but once more Sturges' oddball sense of taste and propriety paid off at the box office in Hail the Conquering Hero. Eddie Bracken plays the son of a World War I Marine hero who is the first in his small town to sign up for military service. When Bracken is discharged from the Marines for hay fever, he hasn't the nerve to go home and tell his mother and the rest of the townsfolk. ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
Writer and director Preston Sturges had a keenly satiric eye for the foibles of the average American, which he rarely used with greater precision than in Hail The Conquering Hero, a superbly funny example of satire that doesn't jab but prods gently. Eddie Bracken never worked with a director more sympathetic to his talents than Sturges, and he gives one of his finest performances as the hapless Marine ... Full Review
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Eddie Bracken
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith
Ella Raines
Libby
William Demarest
Sergeant
Bill Edwards
Forrest Noble
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